10^th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics

6^th - 8^th September 2010
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

News

There will be a WABI Poster Session held Monday 6 September, 6:00-7:30pm.

The list of accepted posters is now available. This list is also available as a PDF.

The ESA/WABI combined program (PDF) is now available.

HTML versions of each daily schedule are also available.

• Monday, 6^th Sept
• Tuesday, 7^th Sept
• Wednesday, 8^th Sept

The list of papers accepted to WABI is available.

Scope

All research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The emphasis is mainly on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.

WABI will be part of ALGO 2010, hosted by the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science. WABI is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

Call for Papers

The WABI submission server is now closed. The notification date to authors is 28 May 2010 1 June, 2010.

Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages. Each paper must contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers.

All submissions must be made online, through the EasyChair submission system within the WABI'10 submission site. You need to register on that web site before sumitting; you may update your submission(s) up to the last minute. A standard PDF file must be received by 23:59 (GMT) on May 11, 2010 in order for your submission to be considered. In case of problems, authors may, by prior arrangement, email a PDF file to the chairs, V. Moulton or M. Singh.

Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors notify the program chairs; if published in a journal, such a contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI proceedings.

PDF version of Call for Papers

Invited Speakers

Eran Halperin Tel-Aviv University
and ICSI, Berkeley

Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa
(WABI/ESA joint
invited speaker.)

Topics

Original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) or state-of-the-art surveys are solicited in all aspects of algorithms in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology including, but not limited to:

• Exact and approximate algorithms for sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment and assembly, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression, molecular pathways and network, proteomics, functional genomics, and drug design.
• Methods, software, and dataset repositories for development and testing of such algorithms and their underlying models, as well as high-performance computing approaches to computationally hard learning and optimization problems.
• Novel approaches to analyzing and modeling next-generation sequence data, including sequence assembly, population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and ncRNA sequencing.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics; papers will be allotted 12 pages.

Previous proceedings of WABI appeared in LNCS/LNBI volumes 2149 (Aarhus 2001), 2452 (Rome 2002), 2812 (Budapest 2003), 3240 (Bergen 2004), 3692 (Mallorca 2005), 4175 (Zurich, 2006), 4645 (Philadelphia 2007), 5251 (Karlsruhe 2008), and 5724 (Philadelphia 2009).

By arrangement with the Editor-in-Chief, selected papers from WABI will be invited for an extended publication in a special issue of the BMC Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

Program Committee

• Vincent Moulton (co-chair), University of East Anglia
• Mona Singh (co-chair), Princeton University
• Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University
• Bonnie Berger, Massachesetts Institute of Technology
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois
• Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University
• Sebastian Böcker, University of Jena
• Magnus Bordewich, University of Durham
• Mike Brudno, University of Toronto
• Philipp Bucher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
• Benny Chor, Tel Aviv University
• Anne Condon, University of British Columbia
• Lenore Cowen, Tufts University
• Keith Crandall, Brigham Young University
• Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois
• Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal
• Liliana Florea, University of Maryland
• Olivier Gascuel, University of Montpellier
• Barbara Holland, Massey University
• Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia
• Daniel Huson, University of Tübingen
• Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
• Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania
• Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland
• Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
• Jens Lagergren, KTH
• Chris Langmead, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ryan Lilien, University of Toronto
• Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut
• Joao Meidanis, Campinas
• Satoru Miyano, Tokyo University
• Bernard M.E. Moret, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
• Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Göttingen
• Gene W. Myers, Janelia Farms Research Campus
• Mihai Pop, University of Maryland
• Teresa Przytycka, National Institutes of Health
• Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University
• David Sankoff, University of Ottawa
• Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University
• João Setubal, Virginia Tech
• Jens Stoye, University of Bielefeld
• Glenn Tesler, University of California, San Diego
• Olga Vitek, Purdue University
• Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong
• Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, Austin
• Chris Workman, Technical University of Denmark
• Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore